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...teaches theology at the University of Tübingen in West Germany, and is regarded by many as the most promising theological talent to appear among German Catholics since World War II. Born in Switzerland, he went to Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, became full professor at Tübingen when only 32. His suggestions for Catholic renewal are published in The Council, Reform and Reunion (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), which contains approving introductory messages by two cardinals. Among Protestants, President Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary praises its liberal, ecumenical spirit, and San Francisco's Episcopal...
...temptation to act rather than speak the words almost overcomes the chorus of peasant women, which makes an excessive search for meaning in the first act. Their lot is made harder by the Gregorian chancel choir, whose lucid chants sets outrageously high standards of precision and tone. Even so, in the second act their tone is just that of the play, and the result is impressive...
Ivan Illich, 35, was born in Vienna; his mother was a Spanish Jew and his father was a Yugoslav Roman Catholic. He took a Ph.D. in history at Salzburg when he was 24, studied theology at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1951. He came to New York City, became interested in Puerto Ricans...
Bridge & Brahms. The son of a plate-glass plant manager, Hesburgh spent his undergraduate years at Notre Dame and Rome's Gregorian University, where "the classes were all in Latin, the dormitory talk in French, and the street talk in Italian." In 1945, after being ordained a priest in the Congregation of the Holy Cross, he joined Notre Dame's faculty. In seven years, he was successively head of the religion department, executive vice president of the university and, at 35, Notre Dame's 16th president...
...Boston College, he taught for the order in the Philippines for three years, then he went to the Jesuit college at Woodstock, Md. for four years of theology. In his third year there, he was ordained, aged 28. He put in two years of theological graduate study at Gregorian University in Rome and various other centers of Catholic learning in Europe before taking up his lifework as professor of theology at Woodstock and editor (since 1941) of the learned quarterly Theological Studies. Thin, towering Father Murray is still the debater (and more subtly the actor) of his high school days...